That too, certainly, but the sheer obsession with sleep itself I think is a product of the work-life balance being totally screwed.

One of my old bosses tried this, and Jesus Christ. He was convinced after about a week that it was TOTALLY WORKING and he looked like absolute hell.

You know, I honestly think it’s because we’ve lost or are losing the ability to disconnect and relax. Personally, I’m “on call” 24/7, and most young professionals I know realize they shouldn’t sleep with their phone close but do anyway because god help you if you miss an alert. It’s exhausting, but I don’t necessarily…

Brain chemistry. Seriously. Not that having a child isn’t also wonderful and fulfilling, but your brain gets flooded with the feel good stuff that makes you not want to eat your young.

It’s really about punishing anyone who doesn’t fit into a set standard of gender “norms,” because realistically, if a trans person is walking around in the clothing of their preferred gender, they’re most likely “passable.” If you don’t look like the traditional version of a man or a woman no matter what your gender…

Read some old Cap and Superman comics. They are incredible.

Not always. More and more companies are trying to be both transparent and decent to their workforce. Something that impressed me with one of the businesses I consulted for (so much that I might just interview with them) is that they re-wrote their company mission and values recently and decided to try to stick by them…

I think this is the bigger problem. The examples in the article are weak IMO because they’re animated films casting really brilliant voice actors and Saldana was an amazing Gamora in a film that painted nearly every woman some strange color. However, that doesn’t take away from the lack of diversity in leads. It’s…

*was

Her death is a huge factor in his decisions, and it’s definitely going to be explored further as either part of his show or future Jones seasons. She knew about Kilgrave’s data and Cage was somehow involved in that as well. Like I said, I think they left a lot of that out because his show will give a chance to delve…

My Mongolian friend grew up with a pet hunting eagle. He’s the nicest guy in the world but looks like he’ll cut you.

What was gross about the relationship? It was supposed to be dysfunctional and ultimately fail. Relationships don’t have to be stellar or end happily ever after to be important. Similarly, I don’t know that I’d call it a fridging when the specter of marginalization, pointless violence, abuse, and the sexual assault of…

spoken like a true Snecky

Fun fact: This is why some of the groups I support provide service dogs to airlines and airports, and why we’re pushing for better certification and coverage for service dogs. They are amazing help for autistic kids.

It’s the ol’ “I’d rather have the BEST person for the job, not just hire them because they’re ____ filling a quota” argument. Like I get it. It’s about interchangeable bodies, but come on, that’s ridiculous, especially when the movies and manga themselves were so groundbreaking. (Spoiler: The Major may or may not have…

Have you read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther series? I’m so hoping they use his work and adapt it for the movie. They’d be insane not to. It’s such a good modern interpretation of the source material.

Are you forgetting Claire (Rosario Dawson) and Luke Cage? Both were the sanest people in those shows, and Luke Cage is going to be awesome in his own series. That’s actually a different studio though. For Marvel, there’s Agents of SHIELD, which has Mae and Mac among other supporting characters, a couple of whom are…

It’s really, really not the same. The PRC is all about pushing the “model Chinese citizen” narrative, to the point that racism and low key ethnic cleansing are still the order of the day. Look at what they did to the Dalai Lama’s successor. It’s really brutal. I’m sure much of this decision also had to do with China…

They did. They also updated some characters to be way less borderline racist than they were in the source material, and I’ll be honest, this is one of them. Remember, you’re dealing with stuff from the 60s and 70s. Especially with the more “fanciful” titles, you get origins and characters who are, let’s say, in…

No, it’s not just that. China has a nasty history of wiping out minority groups that aren’t “model Chinese” citizens, and there’s a ton of deep-rooted racial tension involved in this. There’s a lot of low key ethnic cleansing that still goes on to this day. Check out jazz culture in Taiwan and the Taiwanese language…